diff --git a/NAMESPACE b/NAMESPACE
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--- a/NAMESPACE
+++ b/NAMESPACE
@@ -126,6 +126,7 @@ export(ppc_stat_freqpoly_grouped)
 export(ppc_stat_grouped)
 export(ppc_violin_grouped)
 export(rhat)
+export(sbc_hist)
 export(scatter_style_np)
 export(theme_default)
 export(trace_style_np)
diff --git a/R/sbc.R b/R/sbc.R
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+++ b/R/sbc.R
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+klUniform <- function(v, numPriorDraws, samplesPerPrior) {
+  # D_{KL}(v || uniform)
+  # https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kullback%E2%80%93Leibler_divergence
+  expectedPr <- 1.0/samplesPerPrior
+  observedPr <- table(v) / numPriorDraws
+  sum(observedPr * log(observedPr/expectedPr))
+}
+
+#' Histograms for Simulation Based Calibration
+#'
+#' @param ranks A list of sampling realizations.
+#' @param thin An integer vector of length one indicating the thinning interval
+#' when plotting
+#' @param perBin Number of histogram entries to combine into a single bar.
+#' @param worst If NA, plots all parameters. Otherwise how many parameters to show.
+#' Parameters are ordered by the degree of non-uniformity.
+#' @param alpha Uncertainty interval probability for a false positive (alpha level).
+#' @param hideAxes Whether to hide the plot axes.
+#'
+#' Each list element of \code{ranks} should be a matrix of rank
+#' comparison results (encoded as 0 or 1) associated with a single
+#' draw from the prior distribution. Each draw from the posterior is
+#' in the row and parameters are in columns. The matrix should have
+#' column names to correctly label the parameters.
+#'
+#' So that the histograms consist of independent realizations,
+#' draws from the posterior should be thinned to remove
+#' autocorrelation. Set \code{thin} such that the number of
+#' draws approximately matches the effective sample size.
+#'
+#' For best results, one plus the number of draws from the posterior
+#' should be evenly divisible by the number of histogram bins after
+#' thinning. For example, 511 draws after thinning results in 128
+#' draws. If perBin is set to 4 then 32 histogram bars are drawn.
+#' 
+#' @template return-ggplot
+#'
+#' @references
+#'   Talts, S., Betancourt, M., Simpson, D., Vehtari, A., and Gelman, A. (2018).
+#'   Validating Bayesian Inference Algorithms with Simulation-Based Calibration.
+#'   arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.06788. \url{https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.06788}
+#' @seealso
+#' \link[rstan]{sbc}
+#' @examples
+#' pars <- paste0('parameter',1:2)
+#' samplesPerPrior <- 511
+#' ranks <- list()
+#' for (px in 1:500) {
+#'   r1 <- matrix(0, nrow=samplesPerPrior, ncol=length(pars),
+#'          dimnames=list(NULL, pars))
+#'   for (p1 in 1:length(pars)) {
+#'     r1[sample.int(samplesPerPrior,
+#'                   floor(runif(1, 0, samplesPerPrior))), p1] <- 1
+#'   }
+#'   ranks[[px]] <- r1
+#' }
+#' sbc_hist(ranks)
+#' @export
+
+sbc_hist <- function(ranks, thin = 4, perBin=4, worst=16, ...,
+                     alpha = 0.01, hideAxes=TRUE) {
+  numPriorDraws <- length(ranks)
+  thinner <- seq(from = 1, to = nrow(ranks[[1]]), by = thin)
+  samplesPerPrior <- length(thinner)
+  u <- t(sapply(ranks, FUN = function(r) 1 + colSums(r[thinner, , drop = FALSE])))
+  if (ncol(ranks[[1]]) == 1) {
+    u <- t(u)
+    dimnames(u) <- list(NULL, colnames(ranks[[1]]))
+  }
+  
+  if (!is.na(worst)) {
+    kl <- apply(u, 2, function(v) klUniform(v, numPriorDraws, samplesPerPrior))
+    filter <- order(-kl)[1:min(worst,ncol(u))]
+#    print(filter)
+    u <- u[, filter, drop=FALSE ]
+  }
+  
+  parameter <- ordered(rep(colnames(u), each = nrow(u)),
+                       levels=colnames(u))
+  d <- data.frame(u = c(u), parameter)
+  if (samplesPerPrior %% perBin != 0) {
+    warning(paste("perBin (", perBin, ") does not evenly divide the",
+      "number of samples per prior (",samplesPerPrior,")"))
+  }
+  numBins <- samplesPerPrior/perBin
+  CI <- qbinom(c(alpha/2,0.5,1-alpha/2), numPriorDraws, numBins^-1) + c(-.5,0,.5)
+  offset <- perBin*2
+  pl <- ggplot(d, aes(x = u)) + 
+    geom_polygon(data=data.frame(x=c(-offset,0,-offset,samplesPerPrior + offset,
+      samplesPerPrior, samplesPerPrior + offset,-offset),
+      y=c(CI[1],CI[2],CI[3],CI[3],CI[2],CI[1],CI[1])),
+      aes(x=x,y=y),fill="grey45",color="grey25",alpha=0.5) +
+    geom_histogram(bins=numBins, na.rm=TRUE) +
+#    xlim(1,samplesPerPrior) +
+    # https://github.com/tidyverse/ggplot2/issues/3332
+    facet_wrap("parameter") +
+    geom_hline(yintercept=CI[1], color='green', linetype="dotted", alpha=.5) +
+  geom_hline(yintercept=CI[3], color='green', linetype="dotted", alpha=.5)
+  if (hideAxes) {
+    pl <- pl + theme(axis.text.x=element_blank(),
+      axis.text.y=element_blank(),axis.ticks=element_blank(),
+      axis.title.x=element_blank(),
+      axis.title.y=element_blank())
+    }
+  pl
+}